Computer Science Project

DAVID ARTHUR SMITH

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Amherst, MA 01002, USA University of Massachusetts Amherst

http://www.cs.umass.edu/ dasmith

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413-***-**** 140 Governors Drive

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Amherst, MA 01003-9264, USA

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Education

Johns Hopkins University

2010 Ph.D. in Computer Science

Advisor:Jason Eisner

National Science Foundation fellowship (2003 6)

Wolman fellowship (2002 3)

Harvard University 1994 A.B. summacumlaude in Classics (Greek)

Harvard National Scholar

Professional Experience

University of Massachusetts Amherst

September 2008Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science,

Center for Intelligent

Information Retrieval

Johns Hopkins University

September 2002September 2008Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Center for Language and Speech

Processing

Machine learning for natural language processing: semi-supervised learning and efficient

inference techniques;

syntactic parsing; morphological disambiguation; machine translation and word alignment

Summer Research Workshop, 2003:Member of Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation team

Google, Inc

. May 2005September 2005

Internship in Machine Translation group

Research on improved training and decoding for machine translation

Tufts University

July 1994August 2002

Perseus Digital Library Project

Information retrieval and extraction, named-entity disambiguation, digital libraries,

document layout analysis,

document alignment, morphological analysis

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Fall 2009

Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst (585)

Designer and Instructor

Advanced undergraduate/graduate class with students from computer science and

linguistics; enrollment: 17

Mining Text and Images in Digital Libraries Using Grid Computing Spring 2009

Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst (791MT)

Designer and Instructor, with James Allan and R. Manmatha

Graduate seminar with readings and final project; enrollment: 10

Empirical Research Methods in Computer Science Fall 2005

Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University (600.408)

Designer and Primary Instructor (with Noah Smith)

One-credit course for advanced undergraduates and graduate students on computer-intensive

statistics and experi-

mental design; enrollment: 18

AnOverviewofStatisticalMachineTranslation August 2006

Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Cambridge, MA

Designer and Primary Instructor (with Charles Schafer)

Tutorial on data, models, and algorithms in statistical MT for broad audience;

enrollment: 12

Invitedcourselectures:

Tufts University (CS 0150-TC, Classics 0191-TC), Information retrieval in digital

libraries, February 2002

GrantsandContracts

DARPA Machine Reading:A Universal Machine Reading System(co-PI, $2.5M) 2009 2014

NSF Data-Intensive Computing: Mining a Million Books: Linguistic and Structure Analysis,

Fast 2009 2013

Expanded Search, and Improved OCR(co-PI, $2.3M)

Army/MURI:SUBTLE: Situation Understanding Bot through Language and Environment(co-PI,

2007 2012

$634k)

NIH Clinical and Translational Science program (CIIR membership subcontract, $40k)

2010

2015

NSF CluE:Learning Word Relationships Using TupleFlow(senior personnel, $450k) 2009 2011

Yahoo!, Inc.: Data-Intensive Processing for Better Search, Analysis, and OCR(PI, in-kind

access 2009 2011

to Yahoo! s Hadoop cluster)

NEH Start-up Grants:OCRonym: Entity Extraction and Retrieval for Scanned Books(co-PI,

$50k) 2009 2010

Dissertation

[1] David A. Smith. Efficient Inference for Trees and Alignments: Modeling Monolingual

and Bilingual Syntax with

Hard and Soft Constraints and Latent Variables. PhD thesis, Johns Hopkins University,

2010.

RefereedConferenceProceedings

[

Refereed Journal Articles

[32] Gregory R. Crane, Robert F. Chavez, Anne Mahoney, Thomas L. Milbank, Jeffrey A.

Rydberg-

Invited Presentations

Princeton University, Computer Science Department, February 2011

Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute, February 2011

MIT, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, January 2011

Humboldt University, Berlin, Institut fur deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, January 2011"

UCLA, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, August 2010

University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, March 2008

University of Pittsburgh, Computer Science Department, February 2008

University of Maryland, Computer Science Department, February 2008

Tufts University, Computer Science Department, December 2007

Advising

Doctoral Committees

Kedar Bellare. Advisor, Andrew McCallum. 2009 (proposal)

Gregory Druck. Advisor, Andrew McCallum. 2009 (proposal)

David Mimno. Advisor, Andrew McCallum. 2009 (proposal)

Lisa Friedland. Advisor, David Jensen. 2010 (proposal)

Jangwon Seo. Advisor, Bruce Croft. 2010 (proposal)

Xiaobing Xue. Advisor, Bruce Croft. 2010 (proposal)

Michael Bendersky. Advisor, Bruce Croft. 2010 (proposal)

Current Advisees

Jason Naradowsky. UMass Ph.D. student; co-advisor, Andrew McCallum. 2008

Kriste Krstovski. UMass Ph.D. student. 2009

Xiaoye Wu. UMass Ph.D. student. 2009

Other Research Supervised

Elif Aktolga (UMass Ph.D. student). Qualifying synthesis project, with James Allan. 2009.

Jinyoung Kim (UMass Ph.D. student). Qualifying synthesis project, with Bruce Croft. 2009.

Andrew Kae (UMass Ph.D. student). Qualifying synthesis project, with Erik Learned-Miller.

2009 10.

Jacqueline Feild (UMass Ph.D. student). Qualifying synthesis project, with Erik Learned-

Miller. 2009 10.

David Goff (Cornell undergraduate). Summer REU Site advisee. 2010.

Jeff Dalton (UMass Ph.D. student). Qualifying synthesis project, with James Allan.

2010 11.

Service

Journal reviewing: Computational Linguistics,Computers and the Humanities,Literary and

Linguistic Comput-

ing,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Conference reviewing: ACH/ALLC,ACL,COLING(MachineLearningareachair),DH10,ICML,HLT-NAACL,

EACL, EMNLP, IJCNLP, SIGIR

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Departmentcommittees: graduate program committee (UMass, 2010 11); ad-hoc committee for

new institute

for computational and experimental linguistics (UMass, 2009 10); curriculum (UMass,

2008 10); graduate

student recruiting (JHU, 2003 7), system administration (JHU, 2003 8)

Software

Programmer for document management system for thePerseusDigitalLibrary

(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu)

1999 2002. One of the largest heterogeneous humanities digital libraries, Perseus

presents sources for lan-

guage, literature, art, and archaeology for several periods from the ancient

Mediterranean through 19th century

North America. Users viewing documents receive automatically generated information on

morphology, lexicon,

translations, technical terms, and named entities, as well as temporal and spatial

visualizations. As of fall 2005,

traffic on this site had reached 15,000,000 page views to 500,000 users a month.

Programmer forPerseus:SourcesandStudiesonAncientGreece, 2.0 (Yale U. P., 1996), 3.0 (Yale

U. P., 2000).

PersonalDetails

Date of Birth: 27 October 1972

Citizenship: USA

Languages: English (native); ancient Greek, Latin, French, German (reading); Arabic

(basic)

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